I have my credit card set so that when I use it I get an immediate text or email indicating a transaction has been billed to my card, this way if I’m scammed at least I know it’s happened immediately and can take appropriate action. My Chase Southwest card at gas stations sends me a message immediately, in fact it’s sent so quickly that before I even have time to pull the receipt from the gas pump my message has arrived that I had a charge and at the location where it occurred.
Skimmers are a problem everywhere, we spend most of our time at our permanent home in the North East and just last evening one of the TV stations did a special on CC skimmers.
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